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As well as booking flights, there are many different ways to earn extra points to add to your total.

Points always help with making redemptions and paing for flights with Avios instead of money.

To pick up the most amount of Avios you may like to consider reading about BA Credit Cards and how you can use them to get half-price vouchers on travel – a half price points ticket is definitely a massive benefit!

Here are some more ways to increase your Avios without a credit card

Shopping using the Avios Portal

One of the best ways apart from using a credit card, is to use the Avios Shopping portal to add to the number of Avios you can earn. If you shop through the Avios Shopping Portal for purchases, you can add even more Avios to your total.

A huge amount of retailers are on the Portal – for all kinds of purchases, both in store and online, and for all types of things – from insurance, to your weekly groceries, travel insurance, hotels… you name it, there will be a retailer on the Portal that will give you even more Avios for spending money on usual items!

Some retailers offer a number of Avios per £1 spent, and some offer a number of avios extra per purchase.

There are often deals on Black Friday, Christmas and sometimes even Valentine’s Day and Easter as well.

It’s important to keep cookies enabled and say yes to any cookies being offered when shopping, or some transactions will not post successfully – and you may have to chase the posting manually.

Check out the deals available on the Avios Portal here

Answer Surveys for Avios

Over the past few years, Avios for Thoughts has been a great way of receiving Avios for answering surveys. There is usually a bonus of Avios for you upon signing up, as well as the chance to earn Avios for each survey you undertake.

Some surveys return 50 Avios, others 1000 – it’s worth taking a look to see if you can earn extra avios!

Join and find out more at Avios for Thoughts

Purchase Avios using Balance Booster

This option will cost money – however it can lead to getting cheaper airline tickets to any destination!

The Avios portal regularly runs a “Balance Booster” promotion, where you can choose to buy avios to boost those you already earned this month.

Usually you can buy up to 3x the number of avios earned in a month, however some end of year, black friday or other deals have offered up to 6x balance boosts.

It is a good rule of thumb to see how cheaply you can purchase the Avios. The best rate tends to be at 3x the boost, paying just under 0.96p per Avios. But – look at the conversion rate of £ to Avios when purchasing, and be sure you aren’t getting a bad deal on them!

It’s also worth noting that British Airways can withdraw Avios from your account and close your account at any time, if you may have gone outside of any acceptable use policies.

In the past there have been a number of fraudulent Avios withdrawals and transfers to other OneWorld airlines that use Avios as a currency. BA can sometimes flag transfers of Avios between different carriers as “fraudulent” or may put a hold on the Avios transfer for a number of days. Therefore – it is not recommended to purchase a large number of Avios – as they could, in theory, be taken away from you at any time and for any reason such that the scheme operators see fit.

Having said that – if you are interested in balance boosting, Click here to look at the current deals available to purchase and boost your Avios balance.